CHAPTER ONE: BETRAYALS, PLANS AND AN ALLY.
Lord Harrison potter more commonly known as Harry Potter stood in the corridor to the Gryffindor tower. Standing in between him and the fat lady portrait entrance was Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley his two best friends...and they were livid.
"HOW COULD YOU?" Hermione shrieked rather loudly Harry was sure people in the tower could hear her "HOW COULD YOU GET YOUR NAME IN THE TRIWIARD TOURMENT? PEOPLE HAVE DIED; DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH?"
"AND NOT GIVEN YOUR FRIENDS A CHANCE TO COME WITH YOU" Ron interjected angrily earning a strained look from Hermione and a look of betrayal from Harry "How did you do it your invisibility cloak?"
"I'm telling you I didn't do it" Harry cried frustrated nearly at the end of his tether "I did not put my name in and I didn't..."
"Then you got an older student do" Ron interrupted somewhat proudly like he had sussed out harrys strategy
"NO I DID NOT" Harry yelled beyond angry now as Hermione crossed her arms
"YOU'RE A LIAR" She screeched angrily "YOUR LYING TO ME, YOU WERE MY FRIEND, MY BEST FRIEND LYING DON'T TALK TO ME UNTIL YOUR WILLING TO TELL THE TRUTH"
"Glory hound" Ron added somewhat smugly
"You know what" Harry said entering a cold zone "Believe whatever you want I'm done being friends with people who don't believe me"
Hermione huffed, turned on her heal and walked to the fat lady with Ron hot on her heals.
"Fizz pops" Ron called out and the fat lady opened.
Harry watched as his now former friends entered the Gryffindor Common room and the Fat lady close behind them. Harry stood in the corridor looking at the fat lady with a sad look on his face and a feeling of complete Betrayal as the cold zone faded. Within a hidden room in the castle the Name Hermione granger scratched itself off a list of people completely trusted by both Harry Potter and another.
"Password Champion?" the Fat Lady asked after noticing him. A small butterfly flittering nearby,
With his famed Gryffindor courage failing him Harry turned on his heal and left the corridor. Walking three corridors over and down two floors Harry had to fight off the tears welling in his eyes. Harry stopped at a plain looking door standing where a tapestry of St Barnebus teaching trolls to dance would normally be. Harry opened the door as the tears that threatened his control began rolling down his cheeks as he closed the door behind him and buried him into the waiting embrace of Slytherin outcast Elphaba Hardbroom.
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It took two hours for Harry to stop crying and another hour from him to fully calm down before he could even tell Elphaba what had happened from his name coming out of the goblet of fire to coming into the room of requirement where they were now. Elphaba frowned and leaned against a table the room had counjored
"I definitely believe you didn't put your name in and I can understand Ron being a jealous dufus" Elphaba said somewhat pissed off "But Hermione being stupid I wouldn't normally pin on her" She rubbed the bridge of her nose with her right hand "Is Dumbledore that stupid too?"
At any other time Harry would have ribbed Elphaba for calling Hermione stupid but now his once intense feelings for Hermione had dimmed somewhat when she made it obvious who her choice was.
"I believe it's got to that point now Elphie" Harry replied pulling out a drawer in the table and taking out parchment, a peacock quill and emerald ink. Elphaba raised an eyebrow.
"So we're really doing this then?" She asked sitting beside him on the other chair as he wrote a letter which was magically copied and changed ever so slightly to suit the four students, adult and goblin they were being sent to.
"The complete nine yards" Harry replied with an equal smerk sealing the letters "Dobby?"
Dobby popped into the room with a happy look on his face
"Yes master Harry sir" he chirped happily bouncing on his feat
"I need you to deliver these letters" Harry said holding four letters in his left hand "To four students in this castle their names are on the letters, and these letters" Harry held up two letters in his right "To my godfather Sirius Black and my Accounts Manager Burchoke wait for and return with the replies"
"Once your done Dobby" Elphaba jumped in "Take our trunks, items and Sirius Black to our penthouse apartment in Diagon alley and prepare the other rooms for more guests Just in case."
"Yes Master Harry and Mistress Elphie" Dobby replied proudly taking the letters in corresponding hands and popping away.
"Do you think it will work?" Harry asked after a moment looking thourghtful as he stared into the roaring fire in the fireplace in the corner of the room.
"I truly hope so" Elphaba awncered putting a hand over Harrys and giving it a squeeze "Beside don't the majority of our plans always work?"
Harry chuckled and squeezed back as he thought back to the first time her ever met Elphaba Hardbroom, the first plan they ever made and the first time he felt fear over possibly loosing her.
FLASHBACK:
Little whinging primary school: September 10th1986
A six year old Harry Potter sat at the window seat of the table near the back of Mrs Hollings year one class as the headmaster of little whingings primary school Mr Fox entered with a female student his age following at his heals looking a bit bored.
"Mrs Hollings" He said chirply pulling papers out from under his arm "This is our new students Elphaba Hardbroom these are her papers she's recently joined us from St Marys of the cross in London"
Harry tuned out the rest of the conversation as he watched his new classmate with a curious interest. She had almost raven black hair and blue-green eyes they could be mistaken for siblings...even twins if put side by side. Something about her made Harry hopeful about his life...especially with the Dursleys. Elphaba Hardbroom caught his eye, tilted her head and smiled warmly. Harry smiled back before he was brought back to the conversation
"Welcome to our classroom Miss Hardbroom" Mrs Hollings said looking over the class quickly and seeing a free seat next to Harry "You can sit next to Mr Potter for now and so lets start with our maths lesson Miss Fletcher could you get Miss Hardbroom some workbooks please"
"Yes Mrs Hollings"
Elphaba sat down beside Harry as everyone pulled out their workbooks and another student Gabrielle Fletcher came over from the bookshelf and handed Elphaba the appropriate workbook and notebook for maths.
"I'm Harry potter" Harry said taking a chance as Mrs Hollings wrote up the page numbers and the problem
"Elphaba Hardbroom" Eplhaba replied holding out a hand "Want to be friends?"
Harry grinned as he took her hand and shook it...this year was going to be a good one
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Two years later:
Little Whinging woods: November 23rd1988.
"So you felt a squeezing then found yourself on the school roof?" Elphaba asked with a thourghtful look.
Harry and Elphaba had become and remained best friends irregardless of the Dursleys and the schools somewhat worthless attempts to keep them apart. The two best friends were sitting in a tree house in the small glen hidden in the woods behind Elphabas house facing each other with a small table in front of them.
"Yeah pretty much" Harry awncered truthfully the two had made an oath to always speak the truth to each other and any friends they made and brought in. As it happened Dudley had decided to chase Harry around the playground with his friends and Harry had ended up on the room "Does it sound like something the family would do?"
"Sounds like apparition to me" Elphaba replied tilting her head. Elphabas family were magicals and after a magical History lesson on lord Voldemort, some deliberation and a cunning plan later Elphaba had mentioned Harrys name and the Dursleys abuse to her cousin and guardian Josie Warren (Nee Hardbroom). Harry had managed to play up on the innocent and seriously hurt victim with ease and with one tear soaked conversation later, Josie had at once been round to the Dursleys and tried to transfer guardianship over to her. After a painful two years of stalling, tears, Costly court visits and threats they finally had guardianship of Harry.
"We can always ask Josie or we could go to Diagon Alley" Elphaba said bringing Harry back to the present. Harry smiled as an elaborate idea popped into his head and Elphaba raised an eyebrow "What is it?"
"I know we decided we'll be doing our GCSE's and A levels despite going to Hogwarts but I had an idea" Harry replied with a grin "How about we start our education to Hogwarts a little bit earlier than planned"
Elphaba smiled a knowing smile pulled out some paper and they began to work out Harrys plan.
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Hogwarts great hall: September 1st1991
"Hardbroom Elphaba" Proffessor McGonagoll called out Harry watched as his best friend and sister walked up to the stool to have the sorting hat placed on ere had. The two of them agreed to take a separate carrage each to gain a larger group of friends and agreed irrigardless of houses they would find a way to continue their plan of a Hogwarts takeover. Harry hoped however that neither of them would be put in Slytherin. He had met the groundskeeper Hagrid when they received their letters and went to Diagon Alley for their school supplies. He had given Harry a bad impression of Slytherin which had been supported by Draco Malfoys and Ron Weasleys bad manners.
"SLYTHERIN" The hat called out Harry winced slightly as Elphaba hopped off the stool she gave harry eye contact and nodded with a small pained smile. Harry sat in a boat with her whilst travalling up to the castle and mentioned his fear.
Harrys fear was reaffirmed a moment later when Gregory Goyle and Draco Malfoy followed her to Slytherin. Harry focused on the sorting as Sally-Ann Perks went to Hufflepuff, Padma Patil went to Ravenclaw and Her twin Sister Parvarti went to Gryffindor.
"Potter Harrison" Harrys heart began beating loudly as he walked up to the stool and the hat was placed on his head
"I know of your plan with your sister Harry and the two of you would be great in Slyhterin" the hat whispered in his ear
'not Slytherin' Harry thought back 'please not Slytherin'
"Well if your sure better be GRYFFINDOR!" Harry felt his heart soar then crash as he heard the hat shout Gryffindor. He looked over at Slytherin as he sat at the Gryffindor table and saw Elphaba. The flash of pain he saw in her eyes was palpable and instantly knew that life just got a whole lot harder.
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Abandoned classroom December 24th1991:
"I was hoping to find you here" Harry said entering the abandoned class room he and Elphaba had first had a severe argument in and had origionally commendered for planning in. "I wanted to say...I'm sorry"
Elphaba looked up from the window sill she was sitting at with red eyes and tear tracks down her cheeks
"I'm sorry too" she replied hopping down from the window and hugging Harry "I didn't think it would be this hard"
"Neither did I" Harry replied softly offering a hankercheif so Elphaba could wipe her face. "How about this we take our time to find true friends and introduce one person at a time that we absolutely trust to the Hogwarts Cabal once both of us are absolutely certain of them"
"Yeah I can do that" Elphaba chuckled wetly blowing her nose then vanishing the dirty cloth. "I'm allies with Daphne Greengrass but not friends just yet"
"I'm Leaning to Hermione Granger for our group but not Ron Weasley" Harry admitted a bit painfully "Ron has...issues" Harry paused a moment "Susan Bones is another one i'd recommend being friends with in time"
"I agree with that" Elphaba said with a smile "We've shared a table in the library on occasion and a table in transfiguration and sit next to each other in History of Magic, She's a useful girl to get along with"
"How useful" Harry said without completely thinking causing Elphaba to laugh and smack his arm
"HARRY!" she squealed as he picked her up and swung her around in return the two were best friends again.
FLASHBACK END
Harry was brought out of his thoughts as Dobby popped back into the room with replies to all five letters.
"Master Harry sir and Mistress Elphie" Dobby began holding the replies up "The replies from your friends, Dogfather and Mister Burchoke are here. The Dogfather is in the apartment waitings for you, Master Burchoke is willing to meet with you tomorrow at three o'clock and your friends are willing to help they are packing up now descretely"
"Thank you Dobby" Elphaba said sounding a little surprised at his speediness as she read some of the replies "Tommorow morning collect our friends trunks and deposite them in the appropriate rooms at our appartment they'll be coming with us"
Harry quickly read Burchokes letter and pocketed it thebag Dobby brought with him for harry before reading the one from Sirius:
'pup,
There is no question I am on your side,
snuffles'
Harry smiled a genuine smile and pocketed the letter as he looked up at Elphaba
"Elphie" He said determinedly as she looked at him from the letters "We have planning to do"